Research Experience
Senior Research Engineer, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, June 2022 – Present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, September 2021 – June 2022
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, August 2016 – August 2021
Research Areas
• Active topics: Electric Power Systems Planning and Optimization, Transmission and distribution system co-
simulation, Electric vehicle integration, Grid Resilience, GMD and EMP analysis and mitigation, Electric
transmission network planning, Optimal power flow, Integration of renewable energy resources, Smart
Grids
• Research Interests: Protective Relaying, Energy Markets, Microgrids
Research Projects (PI)
• GMD Transformer Modeling Plan, DOE GDO, TAMU Portion $100,000, 06/2025 – 10/2026
• Transmission Study on Heavy Duty Truck Electrification for Northern California, ElectroTempo, TAMU Portion $50,000 06/2024 – 06/2025
• A Utility-Scale Plan for Accelerating the Deployment of Multi-Family EV Charging Infrastructure, TAMU portion $150,000, project total $2,000,000 project total, DOE VTO, 10/2023 – 09/2025
• Scalable Truck Charging Demand Simulation for Cost-Optimized Infrastructure Planning, TAMU portion $97,200, project total $320,000 project total, DOE VTO, 10/2021 – 12/2024
• Study of the Impact of Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) Events on the Entergy System Associated with NERC TPL-007.1, Entergy, TAMU Portion $37,000 01/2023 – 12/2023
Research Projects (co-PI)
• Research, Development, and Demonstration of a Natural Hazard and Large Language Model Enhanced Electric Grid Planning Tool, DOE CESER, TAMUS Portion: $2,000,000, Total Grant: $2,500,000, Project Dates: 06/2025 – 06/2029
• Electric Grid Resilience, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), TAMU portion $1,500,000, 07/2024 – 09/2026
• Proposal Lead and PM for: Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Regional Grid Consortium, DOE Grid Deployment Office (GDO), TAMUS Portion $600,000, 09/2024 – 11/2025
• Enhanced Geomagnetic Disturbance Modeling, DOE CESER, TAMU portion $750,000, 2/2022 – 09/2025
• HEMP (High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse) Transmission Consequence Model, DOE CESER, TAMU Portion $600,000, 10/2021 – 09/2025
Research Projects (researcher)
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 3, TAMU Portion $550,000 01/2022 – 10/2024
• PSERC S-102G: Second Stage in the Feasibility Assessment of the Synchronous Operations of the North American Eastern and Western Interconnections, TAMU portion $100,000 12/2022 – 05/2024
• PSERC S-99: Incorporating Climate Impacts into Electricity System Planning Models, TAMU portion $64,000 08/2022 – 0/2023
• PSERC S-91: Generating Value from Detailed, Realistic Synthetic Electric Grids, TAMU portion $32,000 9/2021 – 08/2022
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 2, 08/2020 – 08/2021
• ARPA-E PERFORM (Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization, and Risk Management), UW-Madison Portion $200,000, 09/2019 – 08/2021
• ARPA-E GO (Grid Optimization) Competition Challenge 1, UW-Madison Portion 165,000.00, 11/2018 – 12/2019
• Lead PhD student for EPIGRIDS (Electric Power Infrastructure and Grid Representations in Interoperable Data Sets), ARPA-E GRID DATA (Generating Realistic Information for the Development of Distribution and Transmission Algorithms), UW-Madison Portion $1,801,587, 09/2016 – 02/2020